The Swedish Language Council wanted to list 'ungoogleable' as a new word. Google didn't like it. "The word was to be used to describe something 'that you can't find on the web with the use of a search engine', according to the Language Council. However, Google was less than thrilled that a word based on its name had been highlighted by Sweden's 'official language cultivation body'. Google wanted the council to specify that the word's definition only covered searches performed using Google, and not searches involving other search engines." Sadly, the Council decided to scrap the word altogether. Google, get your filthy paws off our languages. It seems like large corporations love to exert pressure on language - Apple tried something similar a few years ago with the abbreviation 'app', something which I exposed for the idiocy that it was. I will use whatever words I damn well please, and so should everyone else. The Swedish Language Council shouldn't even have acknowledged Google's ridiculous request with a response.

No, a langauge council doesn't tell what we can use - they just keep track of stuff. Dutch has one too, and they act 'after the fact'; so, people make up new stuff or alter language in daily speech, and they keep track of it.

Because it acts as a record of the evolving nature of a language. A history book of language, if you will. You may not find that important, but someone like me, who earns his living with language and has studied it all his life, this is of great importance.